lukehopewell1 writes: "A declassified report entitled "Operation Close Encounter" just hit the Australian National Archives.

Within the secret military report, authored by a senior member of the Royal Australian Air Force, we're told how the military detected several radar blips that resembled alien craft near Sydney in the 1980s.

Military aircraft were scrambled to standby positions as citizens all up the Australian east cost reported strange lights in the sky. Some people even discovered landing patterns in Queensland.